The US effort to preserve its global dominance is a costly endeavor based on threats and keeping the American people in the dark about what is going on, former US congressman and libertarian politician Ron Paul told RT.

Paul, who heads an institute named after himself, says he and his colleagues are trying to alert Americans about the dangers of Washington’s foreign policy, which, he believes, will ultimately be detrimental to American interest.

In the Ron Paul Institute, many believe that “what we are trying to do is maintain a modern day empire,” he said, “and that requires a lot of force and a lot of lying too to misinform people in order for the American people to go along with it.”

Washington’s casual use of sanctions, or threats thereof, is one example of this strong-arm approach. Just this week, US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, bragged on Fox News that the US sanctions against Iran were “suffocating them”.

“If people don’t do what we want and obey us, then we put sanctions on them. To me that is the same as war effort when you do this. I think the threats are terrible, sanctions are terrible on principle,” Ron Paul said.

“In the long term it will be detrimental to the United States, because it’s very costly and it’s undermining our alliances with anybody that we want to work with,” he warned. “People are getting tired of us throwing our weight around and putting on sanctions and believing that everybody has to act exactly as we say.”

Paul also said he believed the US policy in Syria, which is based on a necessity to oppose Iranian influence there even if it means allying with groups like Al Qaeda, was very dangerous. The Trump administration is “making sure that we are on the side, who will remain very anti-Iran, and that puts us into a situation, where we have to be anti-Russia too,” he said.

This is not the first time Congressman Paul has spoken about this problem. In January of this year he also gave an interview with RT in which he maintained that “America’s reckless debt and military spending will eventually cause the system to crash and burn like the final days of the Soviet Union.”

“We’re gonna have a sudden, cataclysmic end which is sort of what happened to the Soviet system. It’s not going to be identical, there was a succession movement and some of those countries left the Soviet system. Our states probably aren’t going to break up, but I do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world.

Our empire, although we don’t claim ownership to it, it’s a lot of money and a lot of influence, and we threaten with weapons and we use sanctions to hold our empire together, [but] I think that’s coming to an end.”

Shame that so many innocent people all over the world are to suffer before Empire America finally hits the dust.

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September 14, 2018 19:34

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Raymond Comeau

Excellent Post! Ron Paul did not dare to tell the whole truth or he might end up like Seth Rich.

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September 15, 2018 00:41

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Raymond Comeau

It is interesting to note that Ron Paul mentioned “sanctions” more than once advising of their harm to the countries which the USA has imposed them on. However, he does not mention all the UNending USA wars And the millions of people those USA wars have killed. He even goes as far as to say he agrees to the USA”s
policy of illegally being in Syria and employing Regime Change murdering tactics.
Perhaps Ron Paul is trying to cover his posterior Dorsal Fin or (A$$)!

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September 15, 2018 00:39

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John Nolan

Amazia, Oceania, the ugly, immature, spoilt brat, is now beginning to feel the wrath of their God, the pay back, karma for their ongoing lust for global power. She must feed her dictatorial hunger to prove to the world she is grown up, worthy of attention, to hide her insecurities, her irrelevance to the real world, where citizens are beginning to face the reality that Amazia, along with her lapdog, Englandia, are the most dangerous nations on earth. They are losing their power, their fanciful beliefs they alone are the world leaders they used to be. They are, it seems,… Read more »